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Lessons From Ike: Healthcare and Highways - There is a Relationship

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On a hot afternoon in late June, 1956, President Eisenhower lay in bed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center recovering from a bout with Ileitis. He roused himself to sign the bill he would later describe as the crowning domestic achievement of his presidency: The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. We call it the interstate highway system and usually just the interstate. It is the largest highway system in the world (46,876 miles) and remains the largest public works project in our history. It took 35 years to complete and cost $114 billion dollars.


Hopkins, Peg

 

Community Health Association of Spokane

Op Ed

October 1, 2009

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